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The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. At the risk of sounding immodest, I want to share with readers how deeply moved I am to be receiving an honorary doctor of letters from Regis College, a dynamic and growing university in Weston, MA. Last night…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. I just returned from State Department briefings for editorialists from across the country and posted the following to the website of the Association of Opinion Journalists, just one of several key issues covered in Monday’s day-long sessions. The announcement…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Back in the 1990’s, new House Speaker Newt Gingrich made me furious with his Contract with America, which critics dubbed the Contract on America. It was an era of slash-and-burn, anti-government GOP ascendancy, when in 1995 the Republican Party took over…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Years ago, Barbara Bush is said to have commented that son Jeb was the best politician in the family. That’s the side of the former Florida governor that I saw in New Hampshire on Friday morning at the…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. The suspense was non-existent. “If” Hillary would run again has been “when” for a very long time. “How” was all that remained to be revealed, and her strategy for announcing was an effective alternative to her 2008 entitled-to-win-it grand…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Very knowledgeable politicians speaking in Boston last Monday expressed qualified hopes that Congress could actually get something done. They pointed to the recent “doc fix,” a remedy for the unrealistic curtailment of Medicare payments to providers. The bill passed…
Read More »The entry below is begin cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. photo South Boston Today It’s great fun to see two outstanding Boston Globe opinion writers going at a subject hammer and tong, in total disagreement about the Olympics, Boston 2024 and the psychic state of the organizers as…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. There’s no doubt that Hillary Clinton will be the most experienced Presidential wannabe in either party – when she announces her candidacy. But the lead-up to her announcement has been dogged by missteps and reminders of why people don’t…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. So Benjamin Netanyahu shamelessly and successfully pandered to Israeli right-wing voters in Tuesday’s election. A politician playing to base emotions and lying to get elected, then changing positions again. How unusual. The hard Right is pleased by his…
Read More »The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Former Governor Deval Patrick seems to have caught on that the optics of his $7500 per day pay (plus expenses) for serving as a globe-trotting ambassador for Boston2024’s summer Olympics proposal might not play in some future bid for the Presidency or even…
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